Case makers are traditionally spot on with their prematurely released case designs for not yet acknowledged or released iDevices, and the iPad 3 is no different.

Last year numerous chinese manufacturers missed the mark on a redesigned iPhone 5, but the earky iPad 3 case produced by Chinee appears to share the same form factor as the current iPad 2. The lone difference is the addition of 1mm of thickness to the case design. This additional millimeter falls in line with previous rumors that the next iPad would be thicker in order to house a new retina display.

The cases are on sale now indicating that someone somewhere leaked the design specs for the new iPad, that is if the information Chinee is going off of is accurate. If these cases do in fact represent the final design of the new iPad, rumors of the iPad 3 going into production near the end of January would likely prove true too.

Not much else can be inferred from the cases other than possibly a larger rear camera lens based on the size of the hole in the back of the case. It seems those hoping for a major redesigning of the iPad will be disappointed again. For the rest of us the rumored quad-core A6 processor, retina display, Siri and LTE connectivity will be enough. If the iPad 3/2S/whatever actually has those things.

"Last year numerous chinese manufacturers missed the mark on a redesigned iPhone 5"

I don't think they missed anything. They were simply preying on people who'd actually order them and keeping the money after the customers found out they are not actually releasing the iPhone 5... or maybe tell them to keep it till next year when it will finally be released. It's actually a pretty good scam.

It seems those hoping for a major redesigning of the iPad will be disappointed again. For the rest of us the rumored quad-core A6 processor, retina display, Siri and LTE connectivity will be enough.

Is that suppose to be ironical, or is it just in regard to visuals? A quad-core A6 processor and Retina Display is a MAJOR redesign. It fundamentally changes the iPad experience. The addition of those two things would prompt me to empty out my closet and ebay a bunch of stuff to finally become an iPad user.

Seems to be there are a lot of grammer and spelling police on modmyi these days. Nobody seems to care about the information the artical is relaying, they just want to correct the writers grammer and spelling. It's not unreadable people it has a few small mistakes. Let it go.